Samantha Dion Baker

Draw Your Adventures

Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travels Near and Far

$17.00

  • Published on July 15th, 2025 by Watson-Guptill.

  • 160 pages.

  • Softcover edition in English.

Draw Your Adventures is a perfect book to spark your creativity as you explore the world around you. Choose the book only, or a limited-edition set including essential sketching supplies curated by Samantha Dion Baker and Art Toolkit.

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Pause, Notice, and Draw What You See

Draw Your Adventures is an illustrated guide to approaching your daily life through an explorer’s lens. Author and illustrator Samantha Dion Baker shares prompts, reflections, and inspiration with a focus on adventure, in every sense of the word. Through expressive, colorful art, she shares ideas such as scavenger hunts, art challenges, and personalized sketchbook pages. Whether you’re heading off on a big trip or simply walking out your front door, this book encourages you to pause, notice, and draw what you see. Draw Your Adventures is a perfect book to spark your creativity as you explore the world around you.

When Samantha reached out to us about her new book, we knew it was a perfect fit with our mutual passions for adventures big and small and having the right supplies for them. A sketchbook can invite you to approach something in your daily life from an adventurous place and notice something routine in a new way. Scroll down for a list of recommended supplies. Happy adventuring and happy painting!

Draw Your Adventures along with all of our other reading recommendations, is on our Books page and in our retail shop!

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About the Author

Samantha Dion Baker is originally from Philadelphia, where she grew up in a family of artists. From printmaking to graphic design, her academic and professional life has always centered around art and creating. Now a full-time illustrator, artist, and author, her favorite thing to do is wander the city streets and travel with her family, drawing all of the things she does, eats, and sees in the pages of her sketch journal. Samantha lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two sons. She is the author of several books, including Draw Your Day and Draw Your World.

We have loved collaborating on projects with Samantha over the years! Learn more about Samantha Dion Baker on her website, and on Instagram.

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Draw Your World with Samantha Dion Baker

Samantha and Maria play with color, working on a prompt from Samantha’s New Book, Draw Your World. Sketch along!

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Painting Oranges with Samantha Dion Baker

Follow along and sketch a still life of fruit!

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